123 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Julian Seward
4f282e99ce Improve handling of programs which require very large main thread
stacks.  Instead of hardwiring the main thread stack to a max of 16MB
and segfaulting the app beyond that point, allow the user to specify
the main stack size using the new flag --main-stacksize=<number>.

If said flag is not present, the current default, which is "MIN(16GB,
current ulimit -s value)", is used.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7302
2007-12-18 01:49:23 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d17c45b9d1 Document flakiness of NON_SIMD_CALL* in comments and the manual.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7279
2007-12-05 21:51:50 +00:00
Julian Seward
2fc4ae0c18 - Remove extraneous 'o' (will be stored in svn server for possible
future use)

- Fix tag

- Fix long line which wraps around in html output



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7247
2007-11-28 01:55:29 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
5293c35183 Tweaked the tool-writing docs.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7237
2007-11-27 01:59:02 +00:00
Josef Weidendorfer
1752567fb4 callgrind: support for --callgrind-out-file
This removes the --base option, which is replaced by
--callgrind-out-file.
Plus manual update.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7235
2007-11-27 01:27:12 +00:00
Julian Seward
0993154060 Fix broken link.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7214
2007-11-25 14:09:26 +00:00
Julian Seward
8e8a7e5754 Very minor changes.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7209
2007-11-25 00:56:51 +00:00
Julian Seward
5738a8c1ac Create a new chapter in the Valgrind Manual: a chapter containing info
on some advanced aspects of the core (client requests, function
wrapping) and move stuff from the main core manual into it.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7208
2007-11-25 00:55:11 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d6b40a390d Fixed up the log file mess throughout, including the docs. This killed
--log-file-qualifier and --log-file-exactly.

Updated NEWS some in preparation for 3.3.0.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7202
2007-11-23 01:41:32 +00:00
Julian Seward
9101880b1f Update documents in preparation for 3.3.0, and restructure them
somewhat to move less relevant material out of the way to some extent.
The main changes are:

* Update date and version info

* Mention other tools in the quick-start guide

* Document --child-silent-after-fork

* Rearrange order of sections in the Valgrind Core chapter, to move
  advanced stuff (client requests) to the end, and compact stuff
  relevant to the majority of users towards the front

* Move MPI debugging stuff from the Core manual (a nonsensical place
  for it) to the Memcheck chapter

* Update the manual's introductory chapter a bit

* Connect up new tech docs summary page, and disconnect old and
  very out of date valgrind/memcheck tech docs

* Add section tags to the Cachegrind manual, to stop xsltproc
  complaining about their absence



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7199
2007-11-22 01:21:56 +00:00
Julian Seward
595181679a Add a page listing papers etc about Valgrind. Cut-down version of
http://valgrind.org/docs/pubs.html.  Could do with improved
formatting, but is at least a start.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7198
2007-11-22 01:07:57 +00:00
Julian Seward
5e2a8da202 Spelling fixes and misc tidying for the manual. (Brian Gough)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7173
2007-11-17 09:43:25 +00:00
Julian Seward
af406f51e9 Merge (from branches/THRCHECK) misc build-system changes. Nothing
significant.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7128
2007-11-09 23:30:51 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c7bef26e28 Suggest compiling with --Wall.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7025
2007-10-18 23:14:48 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
1fe5f40db4 clarify a paragraph
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7015
2007-10-17 22:29:08 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
c970063ea0 Add an FAQ.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6910
2007-09-25 22:05:04 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
d5ecca671e Add a warning about --log-file-exactly.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6857
2007-09-17 23:15:35 +00:00
Julian Seward
b91b51b42b Merge (from 3.2 branch) r6743 (Edit the manual to bring it up to date
and make some of the wording a bit more professional sounding.)



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6745
2007-05-23 21:58:33 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
dea2377dd9 Clarify --trace-children a little.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6741
2007-05-15 03:59:23 +00:00
Julian Seward
37243a218c Update slightly.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6659
2007-03-26 02:11:17 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
6dc697c0e6 update
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6624
2007-02-27 22:31:45 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
27321d94ab correctify
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6592
2007-02-16 11:57:18 +00:00
Julian Seward
62d6f5c373 Fix 'make html-docs' and 'make print-docs'.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6389
2006-12-10 02:59:16 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
0a12dbcaf4 Updated docs on tool-writing. Moved them into the user manual.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6339
2006-10-23 21:21:48 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
df0cb32d94 Link to dissertation with a proper link.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6334
2006-10-21 23:00:59 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
525ca8b1ee Removed the file format description from cg_annotate.in, because it's in the
Cachegrind docs.

Removed the Cachegrind tech docs, because they're so out of date to be
useless.  My PhD dissertation gives a much better description of how
Cachegrind works.  (I mentioned this in the Cachegrind user manual.)  The
only still-useful part of Cachegrind's tech docs, the output file format
description, I moved into the Cachegrind user manual.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6332
2006-10-21 22:22:59 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
3234c4c688 Add a FAQ.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@6326
2006-10-20 22:16:57 +00:00
Julian Seward
a51a59e9dc Finalise 3.2.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5957
2006-06-06 21:41:22 +00:00
Julian Seward
5e16c2543f Finalise.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5930
2006-05-25 18:37:49 +00:00
Julian Seward
a2568f1f08 Update for 3.2.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5915
2006-05-21 15:20:19 +00:00
Julian Seward
874d81903e A new flag, --error-exitcode=, has been added, to allow changing the
exit code in runs where Valgrind reported errors.  Fixes #121814 and
#126517.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5897
2006-05-12 23:50:15 +00:00
Julian Seward
6c0bb3620a Oops, this should have been in r5895.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5896
2006-05-12 23:35:10 +00:00
Julian Seward
0eb39e5af3 Increase number of unsuppressed errors shown before cutoff by a factor
of 100.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5895
2006-05-12 23:12:30 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
1a7237d77b Remove tool-specific code (which says which tools allow XML) from the core
by introducing a new "need":  VG_(needs_xml_output)().


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5854
2006-04-16 10:25:43 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
994ecb6cac Add a FAQ.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5831
2006-04-06 14:04:48 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
7852ab7f22 Make the BSD-style license notices slightly more accurate.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5803
2006-03-31 12:05:04 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
991367c922 Merge in the COMPVBITS branch to the trunk. This is a big change to
Memcheck, replacing the 9-bits-per-byte shadow memory representation to a
2-bits-per-byte representation (with possibly a little more on the side) by
taking advantage of the fact that extremely few memory bytes are partially
defined.

For the SPEC2k benchmarks with "test" inputs, this speeds up Memcheck by a
(geometric mean) factor of 1.20, and reduces the size of shadow memory by a
(geometric mean) factor of 4.26.

At the same time, Addrcheck is removed.  It hadn't worked for quite some
time, and with these improvements in Memcheck its raisons-d'etre have
shrivelled so much that it's not worth the effort to keep around.  Hooray!

Nb: this code hasn't been tested on PPC.  If things go wrong, look first in
the fast stack-handling functions (eg. mc_new_mem_stack_160,
MC_(helperc_MAKE_STACK_UNINIT)).


git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5791
2006-03-27 11:37:07 +00:00
Josef Weidendorfer
1cdac21bd9 Callgrind merge: documentation
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5781
2006-03-20 10:29:30 +00:00
Julian Seward
c287a8837d Add a comment about the library's license.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5779
2006-03-20 00:54:54 +00:00
Julian Seward
70bdd1b273 Yet another essay: document the MPI wrapper library.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5778
2006-03-19 18:19:11 +00:00
Julian Seward
e97332eaee Minor futzing (fontification, etc) of the function-wrappers documentation.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5764
2006-03-14 00:56:29 +00:00
Julian Seward
315601a4b4 First pass at documenting how to use the function-wrapping facility.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5763
2006-03-13 13:40:57 +00:00
Julian Seward
76fa726781 Update Limitations section following recent ppc hackery.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5643
2006-02-13 05:15:27 +00:00
Julian Seward
e8d296348a Add configure flags --enable-only64bit and --enable-only32bit with
subvert the biarch build system, something that is sometimes
convenient to do.



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5600
2006-01-28 18:39:09 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
3866282110 Remove all remaining profiling gunk.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5388
2005-12-19 22:48:39 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
a375c52a0c update
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5380
2005-12-19 19:38:02 +00:00
Nicholas Nethercote
a86ed4ea7d clarify
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5280
2005-12-04 19:26:00 +00:00
Donna Robinson
9888e86b06 Tidying up stuff re generating manpage from *.xml docs
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5277
2005-12-03 23:02:33 +00:00
Donna Robinson
e53a6fba14 The valgrind manpage is now auto-generated directly from the
*.xml docs.  No more groffly/nroffly editing.
How cool is docbook ?



git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5276
2005-12-03 22:33:29 +00:00
Donna Robinson
4038a423c5 Removed unnecessary CDATA tags, fixed the <programlisting> indentation cos otherwise fo will barf, added backticks around pwd, etc, etc.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@5252
2005-11-29 16:06:55 +00:00